(n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
(n.) A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) He and George Osborne offer a version of her housewife homilies about debt to justify their approach to cutting the deficit.
(2) During his homily he said that, given theirs was the foremost Catholic country in Asia, Filipinos were called to be missionaries of faith.
(3) He did have some good lines: "We can shape our future or let events shape it for us," and later, "don't shortchange the future because of our fear of the present," - one of those homilies which make you nod in agreement, before you realise you have no idea what it means.
(4) In a brief, unscripted homily, the pope told the young inmates that everyone, including him, had to be in the service of others.
(5) Then at last we came to the Oldie of Oldies, Ken Dodd, aged 87, whose stream of jokes, homilies and character impersonations (Quasimodo) threatened to take us through to dinner and perhaps even the next day’s breakfast, until the chairman intervened and everyone clapped long and firmly to make sure the comedian didn’t start up again.
(6) The parish priest said: “He died a young man – just 25 years of age – and the death of a young person seems to hit us harder.” In his homily during mass Father Brendan Callanan added: “It has taken a long time for us to come to this point but we are here.” Digging is continuing at the site where their remains were found.
(7) wasn’t an official ad, but was tacitly endorsed by Bush and adopted the style of a stirring war homily (think Band of Brothers: the Documentary) as a group of Vietnam vets smeared John Kerry’s war record.
(8) There are isolated jaunty moments: a musical duet with an existentialist banjo; some amusing homilies written on cards and distributed to the audience.
(9) They should remember the character of their party.” What he meant by this is the homily he often delivers: the Liberal party is a broad church.
(10) In a homily at Philadelphia’s largest cathedral, he exhorted the priests and religious orders to adapt to a “rapidly changing society” and better engage with lay women and young people .
(11) "We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities when so many people are waiting for the Gospel," Francis said in his homily on Saturday.
(12) The vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasizsed throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics, lay and religious, to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
(13) Although never directly, Bergoglio has delivered homilies in which he declared himself against Fernández's apparent ambition to change the Argentine Constitution to seek a third term of office in 2015, asking for "the banishment of oversized ambitions" and criticizing "the deliriums of grandeur" of the country's politicians.
(14) Pope Francis’s remarks were made to hundreds of bishops that were assembled for the pope’s remarks in St Matthew’s cathedral in Washington DC, where he delivered his homily in Italian.
(15) The impromptu homily about love and domestic quarrels replaced a far more divisive set of principles that he was supposed to deliver.
(16) Keeping with his spontaneous style, the first pope from Latin America broke away several times from the text of his prepared homily to encourage the faithful to lead simple lives.
(17) I gave my routine homily about future limits, offered what advice I could, and said goodbye, mindful of the likely fatigue he would be suffering.
(18) The Dean of Canterbury, the Very Rev Robert Willis, will deliver a homily.” Welby had been due to talk about how the true spirit of Christmas could not be captured in fairytale endings, using the example of the first world war Christmas truce in 1914.
(19) This is a terrible collection of weak observations and stolen homilies, designed to single out anyone who retweets them as someone who deserves to spend an eternity being punched in the nose in hell.
(20) The homily mesmerized hundreds of thousands beyond the parkway, with Jumbotrons relaying the mass to pilgrims and passersby who gazed, rapt, in the hushed heart of a usually hectic city.
Hominy
Definition:
(n.) Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.
Example Sentences:
(1) When rabbit and horse sera were used instead of human serum for cultivation, in both groups the share of positive cultures increased and more large forms of B. hominis cells were observed.
(2) It was found that the highly conserved tuf gene was linked to the highly variable mhlmp1 gene in 26 different M. hominis strains.
(3) Improved methods for studying the growth of Mycoplasma hominis (ATCC 14027) have been developed, involving modified growth conditions and preparation of the organisms under minimally distorting conditions.
(4) Trospectomycin sulphate, a novel analogue of spectinomycin, was compared to spectinomycin, tetracycline, lincosamide, macrolide, quinolone and naphthalenic ansamycin-class antibiotics for in-vitro activity against Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum.
(5) Cyclophosphamide has been shown to potentiate the growth of Herpesvirus hominis in the skin of Webster Schneider mice.
(6) The nonglycolytic species, M. hominis and M. arginini, accumulated radiolabeled putrescine and spermidine in both media, whereas the glycolytic species, M. capricolum and A. laidlawii, accumulated only radiolabeled spermidine.
(7) A case of disseminated Herpesvirus hominis (type I) in a 23-year-old White man with widespread eczema is reported.
(8) When three strains of Mycoplasma arginini, and one strain each of Mycoplasma arthritidis, Mycoplasma fermentans, Mycoplasma gallinarum, Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma hominis were grown in the medium with high arginine concentration (34 mM) compared with low arginine (4 mM), both the protein content of the organisms and the specific activity of arginine deiminase increased.
(9) C hominis only causes endocarditis, affects middle-aged individuals with structurally abnormal, left-sided cardiac valves, and follows a subacute course associated with the frequent occurrence of mycotic aneurysms and embolic phenomena.
(10) The phospholipids of Mycoplasma hominis type 2 strain 07 are composed almost entirely of phosphatidyl glycerol.
(11) Staphylococcus epidermidis accounted for 48% of isolates, S. hemolyticus for 33%, and other species (including S. capitis, S. hominis, S. warneri, S. cohnii, S. simulans, S. xylosus and S. saprophyticus) for the remaining 19%.
(12) Indirect hemagglutinating and immunofluorescent antibody responses to Herpesvirus hominis types 1 and 2 were compared to neutralizing antibody responses in infected humans from whom H. hominis type 1 or 2 was isolated.
(13) In several experiments calves were infected with sporocysts of Isospora hominis thus producing "thick-walled" cysts of Sarcocystis fusiformis in muscles.
(14) Mycoplasma hominis was isolated in 8.8% of the material from the pregnant women and in 1.2% of that from the neonates.
(15) Among 52 age comparable healthy women, 44 and 13% were positive for M. hominis by ELISA and MIF respectively.
(16) Both M. hominis and T mycoplasmas were isolated from the blood of one woman.
(17) In 478 (98.6%) the disease was caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis hominis and in seven (1.4%) M. bovis.
(18) Three serologic techniques were developed to detect antibodies to M. hominis: ELISA (IgG, IgM), microimmunofluorescence (MIF) and Western blot.
(19) A model of herpetic keratitis with type 1 Herpesvirus hominis was established in the guinea pig.
(20) of the men, ureaplasmas from 58 per cent., and Mycoplasma hominis from 7-5 per cent.